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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the...
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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Family Bomb Shelter

Date: 1952
Description: A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter.
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Two Women with Cleaning Implements

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Description: Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping...
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Amund and Siri Rustebakke and Women with Spinning Wheels

Date: 1873
Description: Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w...
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Crochet Club

Date: 1900
Description: Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind a home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported bran...
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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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Bennett Family Popcorn Party

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Description: Interior portrait; Bennett family popcorn party.
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Bennett Family Popcorn Party

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Description: Interior portrait of the Bennett family posing around a bowl of popcorn. They are sitting in an alcove with the pocket doors open, and three stringed instr...
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State Building & Grounds Retirees Dinner

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Group portrait of those in attendence at a dinner to honor 14 retiring employees of the Division of Buildings and Grounds of the Wisconsin Bureau of Engine...
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Mueller and Helminiak Wedding

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: Group portrait of twelve people sitting around the table at the Jeanne Mueller and Leonard Helminiak wedding dinner at the Madison Club.
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Alpha Epsilon Phi Senior Breakfast

Date: 05 31 1936
Description: Group portrait of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority members standing around banquet tables at senior breakfast, 22 Langdon Street.
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Group of Women

Date: 12 15 1935
Description: Group portrait of seventeen women posing behind a dinner table, 24 W. Mifflin Street. Taken for Laura Anderson.
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University League Tea

Date: 11 16 1934
Description: Group portrait of guests at the University League tea at the home of Dorothy Mendenhall, 205 N. Prospect Avenue. Sitting at the beautiful tea table and pou...
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Ronald Epstein's Birthday Party

Date: 10 27 1934
Description: Eleven children and one adult are sitting around the table at Ronald Epstein's third birthday party.
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Amanda Maisch

Date: 01 11 1934
Description: Amanda Maisch being honored for her 20th anniversary as Janitress at Madison Central High School. Sitting L to R: Elsie Kind, mathematics; Amanda Maisch; E...
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Chi Psi Fraternity Pre Prom Dinner

Date: 02 03 1933
Description: Chi Psi fraternity pre prom dinner at Chi Psi house, 105 Iota Court, with Prom King and Queen.
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Red Cross Sewing Circle

Date: 12 08 1932
Description: Large group of women sewing for the Red Cross at St. John's Lutheran Church, 322 East Washington Avenue. Shows a woman sitting behind a sewing machine on t...
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Bridge Tea at Glenn Frank House

Date: 11 16 1932
Description: University League benefit bridge tea hostesses around the tea table in the dining room at the University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Pros...

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